TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reuss, Heiko
A1  - Pohl, Carsten
A1  - Kiesel, Andrea
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
T1  - Follow the sign! Top-down contingent attentional capture of masked arrow cues
T2  - Advances in Cognitive Psychology
N2  - Arrow cues and other overlearned spatial symbols automatically orient attention according to their spatial meaning. This renders them similar to exogenous cues that occur at stimulus location. Exogenous cues trigger shifts of attention even when they are presented subliminally. Here, we investigate to what extent the mechanisms underlying the orienting of attention by exogenous cues and by arrow cues are comparable by analyzing the effects of visible and masked arrow cues on attention. In Experiment 1, we presented arrow cues with overall 50% validity. Visible cues, but not masked cues, lead to shifts of attention. In Experiment 2, the arrow cues had an overall validity of 80%. Now both visible and masked arrows lead to shifts of attention. This is in line with findings that subliminal exogenous cues capture attention only in a top-down contingent manner, that is, when the cues fit the observer’s intentions.
KW  - Attention
KW  - arrow cues
KW  - spatial cuing
KW  - masked priming
KW  - contingent capture
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14003
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-140030
VL  - 7
ER  -